F1 Fanatic

The slightly funny thing about this statement from Domenicalli is that as a team they have the best average qualifying this season of 3.6………. ahead of mercedes on 4

@Manu

In every stop Mercedes pitted Hamilton first which is worth around 2-3 seconds at the beginning of each stint. During every stint Rosberg closed the gap to Hamilton only to lose all the hard work by […]

There’s a lot being made by people on here about Rosbergs being unable to make a pass stick and therefore he had his chance but couldnt take it. However on closer examination of the “passes” and “re-passes” […]

@John Well

When the cars were running Hamilton, Vettel, Rosberg between laps 33 and laps 38 Rosberg would have been unable to pass Vettel for 2 reason. One is that during those laps they came across 4 lapped […]

@N

Well its not a 6+ gap on pace because over the first 3 laps Rosberg had to pass button and Massa and also started further down the grid. by the time he had passed those 2 he was already 3.2 seconds behind he […]

@N

Hamilton’s pit lane time for his stop on lap 7 was 24.9 against Rosbergs of 22.1 so he lost 2.8 seconds all of which he gained back by having the benefit of changing onto slicks at the optimum time.

Dont […]

At the end of lap 10 after the start, intermediates and change to slicks had all shook out Rosberg was 4.447 seconds behind Hamilton. By the end of lap 20 before the 2nd pitstops started he had cut that to 1.458 […]

Rosberg was consistently quicker than Hamilton the entire race. Hamilton benefited greatly by being pitted first in each stint. Hamilton may have pushed the Redbulls but Rosberg could have beat them if Mercedes […]

My problem with the Hamilton/Rosberg situation is not so much what happened over the final stint but more that the whole race was manufactured to keep Hamilton ahead of Rosberg and when you add up all the numbers […]

I do wish people would stop saying Raikkonen made a “comeback” and comparing it to Schumacher’s. Raikkonen returned to formula 1 from rallying whilst Schumacher made a comeback from retirement. Their not even […]

2012 was one of those years where it was impossible to properly rank the cars, the competitive order seemed to change from session to session never mind from race to race. Iv seen comments refering to the RB8 as […]

Nice Article

Schumachers comeback was always going to be difficult with him being aged 41 and letting the competitive fires recind for 3 years. His comeback and subsequent struggles prompted me to do a lot of […]

The problem is that too much focus has been put on felipes poor performances this season and it true their has been a couple, australia, maylasia and spain in particular(these were before felipe found a setup on […]

@robbie

I think what the last 3 years proves is that retiring for 3 years and returning as a 40 year old plus driver, the first in 15 years is perhaps detrimental to your competitiveness.

Schumacher looks particualy strong this weekend. His fastest lap in FP2 was actually a net quickest when you consider he did it with no DRS. I have been reading various analysis’s that suggest its worth upto 1.2 […]